RTX 4080 vs RX 7900 XTX which one for Super Ultrawide gaming?

[UndergroundGoose]

Hey guys,

 

I am in the market for a new GPU and I eventually came to the dilemma of 4080 vs 7900 XTX. I use an Odyssey Neo G9 as my main display which is 5120x1440.
The current prices of these cards in my region are as follows:
- INNO3D GeForce RTX 4080 X3: 1209 Euro

- ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX TUF: 1029 Euro

 

Looking at the price you could say that the choice if obvious but I found out there are cases where the 4080 would be the better choice. I am someone that plays a large variety of games instead of one or two constantly.

What would you guys choose and why?

[Middcore]

Just look up 4k benchmarks for both cards and add a few frames for each card (5120x1440 is about 7/8ths as many pixels as 4k). 

 

There's nothing that's magically going to make one card better than the other at super ultrawide aspects ratios in particular. 

 

[Princess Luna]

It really boils down to how much you want Ray Tracing.

 

If you're okay going without Ray Tracing then the 7900XTX is the better product as its slightly faster at raster and has more VRAM.

 

If you want to be able to at least experiment with Ray Tracing than the RTX 4080 will be faster at that.

[wildgg]

44 minutes ago, UndergroundGoose said:

Hey guys,

 

I am in the market for a new GPU and I eventually came to the dilemma of 4080 vs 7900 XTX. I use an Odyssey Neo G9 as my main display which is 5120x1440.
The current prices of these cards in my region are as follows:
- INNO3D GeForce RTX 4080 X3: 1209 Euro

- ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX TUF: 1029 Euro

 

Looking at the price you could say that the choice if obvious but I found out there are cases where the 4080 would be the better choice. I am someone that plays a large variety of games instead of one or two constantly.

What would you guys choose and why?

I'd lookup 4k benchmarks of the game you play and see what card is better for your usage.

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Princess Luna said:

It really boils down to how much you want Ray Tracing.

 

If you're okay going without Ray Tracing then the 7900XTX is the better product as its slightly faster at raster and has more VRAM.

 

If you want to be able to at least experiment with Ray Tracing than the RTX 4080 will be faster at that.

Plus given DLSS 3.5 improvements, it may perform even better than the current benchmarks, at least with better image quality.

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, UndergroundGoose said:

Hey guys,

 

I am in the market for a new GPU and I eventually came to the dilemma of 4080 vs 7900 XTX. I use an Odyssey Neo G9 as my main display which is 5120x1440.
The current prices of these cards in my region are as follows:
- INNO3D GeForce RTX 4080 X3: 1209 Euro

- ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX TUF: 1029 Euro

 

Looking at the price you could say that the choice if obvious but I found out there are cases where the 4080 would be the better choice. I am someone that plays a large variety of games instead of one or two constantly.

What would you guys choose and why?

For gaming they are mostly equivalent, the 7900XTX being a tad faster native

Real difference is that 4080 has way better RT, the 7900XTX in CP2077 RT performs like a 3080 (I know, used both !), and has DLSS and FrameGen

It also works for AI way better (if you're using Stable Diffusion or such)

So question is do you want to pay +£200 for RT/DLSS ?

[BuzzingBee]

Apart from DLSS/RT, Nvidia may have extra advantage of supporting gsync in windowed game, so if you're playing games at say 16:9 windowed and wanting to have browser opened at another side, gsync would still work. For AMD cards games must be fullscreen to have Freesync working so for 16:9 games it means having black bars on its side.

 

Also there's Nvidia Freestyle if you care about tweaking game appearances. I have a friend that preferred Nvidia GPU because of that. 

 

Just trying to lay out few more factors that may help in your consideration.